May 1991

vol 3/#8

Courts Academy
celebrates anniversary

Public
workshops
respond to
gang violence
by Steve Hess

Left to right: Chris Poole, Sandra Evans, Director of Program and Project
Implementation for Court Services, and Pat Ross, discuss the 1991192
Courts Academy contract.

by Chris Poole

Court Services Branch, Ministry
of Attorney General, strengthened
its relationship with the Justice
Institute in 1990 by re-establishing Academy status as part of the
lnstitute's Education Services Division. Courts Academy resumed
its full-time training agenda on
April 1, 1990, with a mandate to
deliver a broad curriculum of
training courses for the Branch.
Courses in the curriculum respond to Ministry regulations,
Branch policy and tactical plans,
and provide staff development op-

portunities in the following areas:
• Deputy Sheriff Block 2 Program - a four week program
focussing on peace officer
powers and responsibilities,
self-defence skills, conflict
Tesolution, first-aid and driving skills.
° Financial Management - various ccurses that address fiscal practices and responsibilities in government, for all levels of Court personnel.
continued on page 2

The problems of gang violence are
becoming more and more apparent on the streets of Greater Vancouver. Once thought of-as a
phenomenon of only the larger
American cities, gangs are spreading throughout Canada and have
become increasingly active in British Columbia.
Vancouver is no stranger to
gang activity; the Clark Park,
Dunbar, and Lotus gangs have
been a part of our history for some
time. It is the rising level of violence associated with gang activity
that is making them more visible.
Broken windows and fist fights
have given way to "drive-by'' shootings and murders in attempts to
control the streets. It is a problem
about which, not just the police,
but more and more groups in the
community are concerned.
To address the problem, the Police Academy and Extension Programs have involved professionals,
from social services, education
and enforcement fields in open forums to encourage the development of strategies.
continued on page 8

Fire Academy • Police Academy • Corrections Academy • Finance and Administration Division • Courts Academy
Educational Services Division • Paramedic Academy • Provincial Emergency Program Academy

Search and rescue manual production PEP Academy leads the way

Linda West, PEP Academy's Supervisor of Administrative Services, takes notes during a Search
and Rescue Advisory Council
meeting held in Victoria at PEP
Headquarters. Seven of the lat-

est manuals prepared for the volunteer Search and Rescue community by the PEP Academy are
being processed by the committee
chair Dave Brewer of North Vancouver (left), and Scott Patch

Kelowna Zone Manager for PEP
(right).
The committee is reviewing
manuals prepared by Ross Cloutier of the PEP Academy. The process includes a review by E
Division RCMP, the advisory committee and PEP Headquarters
Victoria. Manuals will soon be
available for: Dog Handling for
Search and Rescue, Search Management Familiarization
(RCMP), Embankment Rescue,
Cliff Rescue Team Leader,
Ground Search Team Leader,
Search Management, and Basic
Search and Rescue Instructor.
PEP and the Academy are leading the way for Canada in manual production to support ground
search and rescue. D

Courts Academy... cont'dfrom page 1
• Public Relations - a course
that uses specific workplace
scenarios to address issues
and goals relating to quality
service to the Branch's diverse clientele.
• Instructional Techniques/
Coaching Skills - develops
skills to support the Branch's
regional and local training
initiatives.
• Management Skills - a variety of courses that address
the roles and needs of all
levels of management personnel.
In the 1990/91 fiscal year,
Courts Academy achieved a total
of almost 4400 student training
days through classroom sessions,
distance education and other
training-related activities.
In addition, Courts personnel
continued to make use of the JI
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library's field services on a regular basis, especially in the area of
printed materials and video productions.
Academy staff were also actively involved in specific Branch
projects during the past year, including revisions to the Deputy
Sheriff Blocks 1 and 3 training
materials, the establishment of a
Curriculum Guide!l'raining Calendar for Court Services personnel, as well as a video production
on the topic of preparing for government job interviews.
The Academy's (Acting) Program Director contributes to the
decision-making process on training issues as a member of the
Branch's Human Resource Committee, and is involved in course
design and development. Examples include the revised workshop
on Hostage Survival for Court

Services personnel and a future
program to address the needs of
court clerks and registry personnel.
In summary, 1990/91 was a
year made significant by Court
Services' decision to re-establish
its training contract at the Justice Institute with Academy status. The year has provided a
solid new foundation on which
the Academy can grow and play a
more important role, both for
Court Services and the JI.
The Academy is supported by
two full-time staff and two
part-time staff. They are: Chris
R. Poole - (Acting) Program
Director, Gail Makowsky Program Assistant, Sheila
MacCallum - Program Co-ordinator, and Brian Woods- Staff
Development Officer, Sheriff
Programs. D
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Extension Programs receives contract
for Northern training
by Shelley Rivkin

Extension Programs has recently
contracted with the northern regional office of Mental Health Services to deliver 183 days of
training to paraprofessionals and
mental health practitioners working with sexually abused children
and their non-offending family
members. To ensure that the program meets the unique training
needs of these northern communities and reflects the cross cultural
diversity of the local population,
two community committees have
been formed. The mandate of
these committees is to guide and
assist Extension Programs staff
involved in designing and delivering the training.
The total package consists of
four components. Two components are targeted toward front
line workers serving off-reserve
native clients. These components
will focus on the nature and dynamics of child sexual abuse,
behavioural indicators, and reporting procedures, and will demonstrate and enable participants
to practice crisis intervention and
short term support skills. These

two components will be offered in
12 communities and will be co-facilitated by native and mainstream instructors currently
living in northern B.C. The remaining two components are targeted toward mental health
practitioners and therapists in
private practice and will provide
participants with specific therapeutic skills for working with sexually abused clients. These
components are an adaptation of
the sexual abuse certificate program currently offered in the
Lower Mainland. Many of the resource people currently delivering
programs at the Justice Institute
will instruct these components.
The training is free to paraprofessionals and professionals living
in northern B.C., and it is expected that approximately 576
people will have the opportunity
to participate. As part of Extension Programs involvement in the
delivery of this training program,
Shelley Rivkin has been asked by
Mental Health to sit on an advisory committee that is overseeing
the establishment of the first

···SPOTLIGHT··~

RecogniHon

mittee that will oversee the establishment of the first children's
mental health service in northern
British Columbia.

Colleen Vaughan received her

Changes

On Staff

BA in Commerce from UBC in
May. Even though she was working full time, Colleen was able to
complete the five year program in
only six years.
Shelley Rivkin, Program Coordinator, Extension Programs,
has been asked by Mental Health
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Fire Academy instructor/co-ordinators Len Garis and Dennis
Leigh both left the Academy in
May. Dennis resigned to work as
a training consultant and Len is
the new Director of Protective
Services for the municipality of
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children's mental health service
in the North. Part of the continuing role for Extension Programs
under the contract will be to develop guidelines for the formation
and training of a professional support team to provide ongoing
treatment consultation to mainstream and off reserve native professionals working in the field of
children's mental health.
In addition to the training offered to participants, two workshops will be designed specifically
for the instructors involved in the
program. The instructors from
the North will have the opportunity to attend a two-day instructional skills workshop to increase
and enhance their training skills;
Lower Mainland instructors will
have the opportunity to participate in a cross cultural skills
workshop to increase their understanding and sensitivity to native
culture and community life.

Shelley Rivkin is Program
Co-ordinator, Extension
Programs. 0

Upcoming 1991
Social Events

June 14: Annual
Barbecue
We'll keep you posted
on further events .....
Your Social Co.mmittee

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Conference Reports
One of the purposes of sending staff to confererices is so that they
can share the things they learn with others. Several JI staff have
recently attending conferences addressing a variety of topics.
The reports that follow give a fl,avour of what they gained from
the experierice.

Police Educators Conference
Board of Canada
by Bob Hull

The Police Academy was well represented at the recently completed 18th annual conference of
the Police Educators Conference
Board of Canada. Deputy Director Bob Hull, Program Director
Tony Needham, and Program Coordinator Steve Hess were among
80 participants at this year's
meetings, held in Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island.
The theme of the conference
was "Technology in Training."
Premier Joe Ghiz opened the conference and sessions highlighted

computer interactive and satellite
transmission training. Hosted by
the Atlantic Police Academy, the
meetings attracted police educators from around Canada.
One of the features of the annual conference is the presentation of the Canadian Police Video
Awards and, once again, the JI's
Media Centre produced award
winning material for the police
community (see story and picture,
page 6).
Bob Hull is Deputy Director,
Police Academy. 0

American Society of Training and
Development Conference:
Keys to Surviving in a Changing and
Diverse World
by Paul Pershick

''The key to our survival is to incorporate new thinking, which
means changing the way we see
the world," said Leland Russell at
the American Society of Training
and Development Conference and
Exposition in San Francisco, May
21. Russell, who has owned and
operated a business and has consulted for entertainers and For- ·
tune 500 firms, was the feature
presenter at the week-long conference of approximately 5000 delegates froll} around the world.
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"It means tearing down the
walls - exchanging your old view
of the world for a new one," said
Russell. He went on to explain
what he calls the GEO paradigm.
GEO stands for Globalization,
Empowerment, and Orchestration of technology.
"These are the powerful forces
that are reshaping our world,"
Russell said. "These are the
forces that are tearing down the
walls. Globalization is tearing
· continued on page 6

World
Conference on
Emergency and
Disaster Medicine
by Tony Williams

"Tell Tony our paper opened the
flood gates." This is how Paramedic Academy heard of the success of the research paper
presented at this year's Seventh
World Conference on Emergency
and Disaster Medicine by Academy Instructor Pat Seline.
Representatives from European, Australian and Canadian
services poured over the research
paper. For two years, Kelly Murphy, Pat Seline and Tony Williams
had been testing a stand-alone
training system for the automatic
defibrillator. They wanted to design a system that would keep people interested after they had
received their basic training.
"Skill maintenance is a problem
for services around the world,"
Tony Williams remarked.
Pat presented the abstract and
the system at the scientific papers
section of the World Conference in
Montreal, May 13 - 16. "About 40
people attended my presentation
and numerous people came by the
poster presentation," Pat reported.
"Everyone was pleased that we
had addressed the issue so early
in the history of the defibrillator
program." Pat met colleagues
from France, England, Scotland
and Australia who were interested
in the system. "I was nervous before the presentation, but really
proud afterwards," he concluded.
Sandy Barabe was also in demand at the conference. Many
physician administrators, struggling to get advanced cardiac life
support training going in their
countries, heard of Sandy's experience in B.C. They pumped her for
information and (rumour has it) offered her all sorts of trips to help
them with their programs.
Tony Williams is Director, Paramedic Academy. 0
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lnterphase Emergency Medical
Service Conference: Paramedic
Academy Staff Get an Education
by Tony Williams.

In one session we were teachers,
in the next we were learners. Paramedic Academy staff made a
major contribution to this year's
Interphase EMS Conference held
in Toronto, May 25-30. Dave
Busse was on a controversial
panel discussing the future of professional associations in EMS.
Derek White, assisted by Vic Barron and Sandy Barabe, produced
a lively demonstration of conflict
resolution methods. Tony Williams and Derek White showed
how standardized selection methods can best match person and position. Academy consultant Dr.
Paul Assad described how B.C.'s
Airevac program evolved and the
training we developed for these
specialists. Even Tony Williams'
photo of BC's paramedics in action won the "Best EMS Photograph" contest.
Many non-educational issues

were also thrashed out in closed
meeting rooms. For example, national groups held their meetings
at the conference to benefit from
both the meeting and the conference sessions. In one such meeting, Paramedic Academy's Dave
Busse was replaced as president
of the Society of Ambulance Personnel by Lethbridge paramedic
Brent Kozak. Dave became the
membership co-ordinator on the
society's board. In another meeting, Derek White became President oflnterphase National and
John Schinbein (BCAS Director of
Administration) was elected as
member-at-large.
Ian Dailly, at his first conference as Program Director, made
some valuable contacts. He
linked with his counterparts in
Regina and Toronto's Sunnybrook
Hospital. All three are just
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Canadian Police College Conference
by Selia Miller

On May 5th, 1991, I left Vancouver on Canadian flight 902 bound
for the Canadian Police College
and ... ITC ... Ignorant as I was to
the idiosyncrasies of Instructional
Techniques, I was eager to learn.
Little did I know of the torturous
work load that loomed ahead.
The next morning, I met my fellow victims. All were unaware of
the public humiliation the instructors had in store for us. Sue
O'Sullivan, the course co-ordinator, laughed sinisterly as she told
us that the beds in our rooms
were there only to torment us.
For the next two weeks, sleep deprivation and visual aids would
be our life. It soon became apparent that their evil plan was working. They had turned 20 babbling
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fools into confident, effective instructors in just two weeks!!
We were all elated with our accomplishments and felt that our
efforts must be rewarded appropriately. So that night we headed
straight down to the Newfoundland Club and "got screeched!"
cod fish and all.
On the last day, we received
our certificates with pride and yet
with some sadness as we realized
we would be together as a class
for the last time.
I met some wonderful people
during those two weeks and I will
miss them. I hope our paths will
cross again.
Selia Miller is an Instructor,
Police Academy. 0

Canadian
Association of
Adult Educators
Conference:
Making a
Difference
by Flora MacLeod

Since their beginning in 1988, national conferences on adult education have take place each year in
different cities - Lennoxville,
Vancouver, Ottawa, and this year
in Fredericton. The conferences
focus on identification and analysis of social issues which affect
adult learners and learning and
the generation of advocacy ideas
and actions.
What was different this year?
Fredericton is a town full of wonderfully preserved 19th century
domestic architecture, the salmon
tastes subtly distinctive, and the
fiddleheads are fresher. But are
the adult ed "hot topics" on the Atlantic side different from this side?
From my point of view, the topics didn't differ much but the
point of view - fortunately was very distinctive to the Maritimes and its past. Bilingualism
has a different history there, and
the adult education movement reflects its Acadian heritage. And
bilingualism is practised. Antonine Maillet, the revered Acadian
playwright and author, addressed
a plenary session in French, describing with great good humour,
her version of a united Canada.
This was a smaller conference
than previous ones (about 250 people), and it was attended by people from rural, even isolated
areas. The "down home" atmosphere was pervasive, friendly,
practical. The most subscribed
workshop? - "Making Sense of
Humour." The highlight of the
second day? - a Success Fair featuring 23 local community based
organizations and interest groups.
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American Assoc. of Training
and Development
Conference... con't from pg. 4
down the walls of parochialism,
creating a single global marketplace. Empowerment is tearing
down the walls of hierarchy, turning the rules of management upside down. Orchestration is
tearing down the walls of the machine age, leaving us in a world of
friendly, flexible electronic tools."
The first principle to globalization is to see the big picture. ''We
need to look at the unified whole.
When we see the big picture, we
begin to see things in a new light
and our priorities change."
Russell said that between now
and the year 2000, 80 percent of
new additions to the workforce
will be immigrants, minorities,
and women. ''We need to become
aware of our own value system look at our age, sex, religion,
where we grew up, and our organizational affiliation, and understand how that reflects our
values. We also need to respect
the cultural values of others and
be sensitive to their expectations."
The first principle of empowerment, according to Russell, is to
update continually. The rapid
turnover of technology will require continual learning just to
stay current. He said it is essential to develop new knowledge
and skills as a matter of habit.
''The world of change is literally
overnight and it is what you do
today that is important, not what
you did yesterday."
The first principle of orchestrating technology is to build your information capacity. "We need to
build our capacity to deal with the
growing amount of information,"
he said.
Finally, Russell said that we
must be able to assimilate new advances. By the year 2000, people
will be using tools that they can
barely imagine and they will be
using them in an effective and coordinating manner - by orchestrating technology.
Paul Pershick is Program Director, Corrections Academy. 0
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lnterphase Emergency Medical Service Conference ...
con't from page 5
starting new Advanced Life Support programs. They'll share
their horror stories and successes.
He also had his eyes opened: "BC
is still held up as the model by the
other provinces," he said, "but
they've learned from us. They are
not making the mistakes that a pioneering service like ours inevitably makes."
Ian also noted that Ontario's research program is ahead of B.C.'s
- but they have a different impetus for research. "New program
money is tight unless they've done
formal research on the program's
benefits, so research can have im-

mediate dividends," he noted.
"They investigate 'what could be'
while we investigate 'what is and
what could be,' " he concluded.
Next year's conference is in St.
John's, Newfoundland. They
promise hospitality unique to
Newfoundland. The organizers
have already indicated they'd like
more of the same input from our
people. We hope we will get more
of the same lessons we learned
from this year's meeting.
Tony Williams is Director, Paramedic Academy. 0

Media Centre wins award
f<>r video

Cpl. Mark Johnstone, Bob Huli and Pat Ross (seated, left to right) share the
pleasure as Will Mah (standing, left) accepts the Certificate of ftAerit from
Police Academy Director Phil Crosby-Jones.

The JI Media Centre's roll call
training tape entitled When to
Call !dent shows an enactment of
a residential break and enter. It
discusses whether or not the fingerprint and tool mark evidence
is of value, how to transport it (if
applicable), and under what circumstances Ident should be requested to attend the scene.

Will Mah, the Producer, can
take a well-deserved bow for his
Certificate of Merit issued by
Police Video Awards Canada,
and accepted on his behalf by
Deputy Director Bob Hull.
Cpl. Mark Johnstone, Police
Academy Human Relations Instructor co-ordinated the production. 0

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Fire Academy conducts its first
recruit fire .fighting course
by Irwin DeVries

The new Safety Training Centre sign
indicates the Joint use of the facility.
Instructors and recruits from the first recruit fire fighting course.

On May 21-22, 16 Vancouver Fire
Department rookies participated
in the Fire Academy's first practical, live fire fighting course for recruit fire fighters. The training
prepared them for the rigours of
facing live fires on the job.
The training took place at the
Safety Training Centre in Maple
Ridge, a fire and hazardous materials training facility jointly used
by the Justice Institute and the

Pacific Marine Training Institute.
The recruits came to the program after three weeks of basic
training on the job. During the
Fire Academy program, they were
divided into four groups, rotating
through work stations. The work
stations covered car fires, interior
structural fires, search and res~
cue in a smoke filled structure,
electrical safety and fire extinguisher use. All 16 students

Instructor Al McLeod briefs students before they
enter a burning structure.

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achieved the required standard of
performance.
Instructors for the program included both Fire Academy staff
and specially trained officers contracted from Vancouver, Delta,
Richmond and Surrey fire departments.
Programs will be offered to
other career fire departments beginning early Fall 1991.
Irwin DeVries is Deputy Director of the Fire Academy. O

Recruits inspect and prepare breathing apparatus prior to
entering a smoke-filled structure.

Test your fire safety
knowledge
1. The most common kitchen
fires involve:
a. grease build-up in broiler
b. pan on top of stove
c. microwave ovens
d. electrical appliances
2. Most home extinguishers
may last only:
a. 6-12 seconds
b. 30-60 seconds
c. 60-90 seconds
d. 90-120 seconds
3. Most fire deaths are caused
by:
a. cooking utensils
b. electrical appliances
c. heating devices
d. smokers' materials
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• • • NOTES & NOTICES • • •
''Putting Power Punch &
Pizazz in Your training"
This is a one and a half hour
video presentation given by
Robert Pike at the 1991 American
Society of Training and Development Conference in San Francisco
(see report, page 4).
If you would like to preview
this video, please contact Paul
Pershick, Program Director,
Corrections Academy (local 297).

JI staff workshops scheduled
The second series of JI workshops for JI staffis now underway and space is still available in
the following workshops:
June 14: Hug a Tree: What to do if
You're Lost in the Woods
June 20: The Complete Commuter
Parent
June 25: First Aid & Safety Procedures at the JI
June 28: Negotiation Skills

Gangs... con'tfrom page 1
They have also put together a series of workshops for interested
members of the community and
people who work with gang members. Resource people for the
workshops include representatives from municipalities, school
boards, law enforcement agencies,
the Ministry of Social Services
and Housing and a range of com-

munity groups.
The first Responding to Gang
Violence workshop was held in
Abbotsford on June 4. The second was scheduled for June 10
at the J.I. Workshops will be
scheduled for other Lower Mainland locations in the Fall.
Steve Hess is Program Co-ordinator, Police Academy. 0

Adult Educators Conference... con'tfrom page 5
Paradoxically, this was also a
conference with international
focus: Stephen Lewis spoke on
raising the consciousness of the
adult population and Canada's responsibility to third world children. Maj Fant, a journalist and
adult educator, and Gunilla
Zackari, of the Swedish National
Board of Education, talked about
women and education in their
country. Hans Schutze of Hanover, Germany and visiting professor at the University of B.C.
Department of Adult Education,
spoke on world trends in workplace education. A workshop on
CIDA's new policies and efforts to
deal with federal cuts in funding
was full.
What was similar? The catch
phrase across the country; "life
long learning," and many of the
issues: adult literacy, the learning
disabled, English as a second
language, poverty, women's
issues, native rights, multiculturalism and family violence.
These continue to be vital national concerns in the world of

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adult education in all its venues.
The next CAAE national conference will be held in Regina, June
17 - 20, 1992.
If you are interested in the latest policy and program description from CIDA, please contact
me at225.

Flora MacLeod is Program
Director, Extension Programs. 0

The Justice Institute
of B.C.
is dedicated to
improving the
quality of justice
and public safety
by developing
and delivering
training programs
and offering
educational services
to professionals
and the public.
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